Fieldwork: Misadventures at the Edge of Science

Tom Yoder
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Stories from biologists, archaeologists, geologists, and other “ologists” who do fieldwork where there are sometimes no roads, no shelter, and no backup.

Episodes

  1. 04/01/2022

    Shanna Diederichs

    Shanna describes her harrowing escape from Egypt as law and order are upended at the start of the Arab Spring uprising in 2011.

    47 min

  2. 03/25/2022

    Tyson Hughes

    Tyson describes an archaeological survey in the forests of Idaho that changed him forever.

    21 min

  3. 03/18/2022

    Nathan Brown

    Nathan takes us to the inter-coastal waters of Florida for fish surveys, the sage brush of southern Utah where prairie dogs roam, and into the dangers of the Little Colorado River canyon.

    51 min

  4. 03/11/2022

    Kelly McAndrews

    Kelly shares several "field funnies" from her 30-year archaeological career in the Four Corners area.

    22 min

  5. 03/04/2022

    Chris McAllister

    Chris describes the perils of doing archaeological survey near Area 51 in Nevada, and in the snake-infested jungles of Louisiana.

    28 min

  6. 03/02/2022

    Jonathan Till

    Jonathan shares his tales of danger while doing archaeological survey along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.

    34 min
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Stories from biologists, archaeologists, geologists, and other “ologists” who do fieldwork where there are sometimes no roads, no shelter, and no backup.

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